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Showbiz Today Reports: Julia Roberts Clears the Air; Bond Gives Classical Music Some Spice
Aired July 11, 2001 - 11:39 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Checking in now with Laurin Sydney for showbiz news.
STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR: And she's got a lot of it, too -- Laurin.
LAURIN SYDNEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right big Julia Roberts news today because last night on "The Late Show with David Letterman," everyone is concerned about her love life. And Roberts finally spoke out about her highly publicized breakup with longtime beau, Benjamin Bratt and rumors about her being with George Clooney. Take a listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN")
JULIA ROBERTS, ACTRESS: It has to be all about me going out with George Clooney, a kind, lovely man. Not my boy friend.
DAVID LETTERMAN, TALK SHOW HOST: Oh, are you going out with George Clooney?
ROBERTS: You know, strangely I'm not.
(LAUGHTER)
LETTERMAN: Really?
ROBERTS: Yeah.
LETTERMAN: He's kind of a load anyway, isn't he, that George Clooney? Isn't he really? Oh, God all mighty.
(LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE)
ROBERTS: What a burden, George the burden.
LETTERMAN: So what's next for Julia? I don't know, I heard Barbara Walters say that once.
(LAUGHTER)
ROBERTS: And she lost her time slot. LETTERMAN: Yes, that's right. She got the boot.
ROBERTS: Yes.
LETTERMAN: But now, you've been married of course. And one day, you'll probably married again. I see you married and probably having a family. Sure.
ROBERTS: Yes.
LETTERMAN: And..
ROBERTS: Do you think -- yes, if someone proposes to me.
LETTERMAN: Yes, and for the time being -
ROBERTS: Do you have a question built into this?
LETTERMAN: No, no, no, no. But for the time being, you're alone. And that's fine. People can be alone.
ROBERTS: I'm single, Dave. You can say it. No, I've been practicing in front of the mirror. Hi, I'm Julia, I'm single.
LETTERMAN: Course there's nothing wrong with that
ROBERTS: No. Doesn't make me a bad person.
LETTERMAN: No, I never said you were a bad person. Who said that? Nobody's saying that.
ROBERTS: No, quite a few have.
LETTERMAN: No, no. And I'll bet you're better off. I'll bet you're stronger because what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right?
(LAUGHTER)
ROBERTS: Yes. I agree with that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SYDNEY: Here, here. Speaking of gorgeous women with their plunging necklines, bare midriffs and tight pants, the women who make up Bond look more Brittany than Beethoven.
This classically trained string quartet's debut album, "Born," has gone platinum in Europe and is making waves right here in the U.S.
Rachel Wells reports on the girls who are giving classical some spice.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
RACHEL WELLS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You're Haylie. TANIA DAVIS, BOND: Tania.
EOS, BOND: Eos.
WELLS: Eos. I just needed you to say that on camera because I knew I would screw it up.
(LAUGHTER)
GAY-YEE WESTERHOFF, BOND: Gay-Yee.
HAYLIE ECKER, BOND: It's a string quartet setup, a classical string quartet. So I play first violin in Bond.
EOS: And I play second violin.
DAVIS: And I play viola.
WESTERHOFF: I play cello.
WELLS: The Spice Girls of classical music!
(LAUGHTER)
WELLS: How much do you love or hate that tie?
DAVIS: It appeared in an English newspaper when the album "Born" first came out in England. They were like, "oh, my God, it's the classical Spice Girls"! But the only similarity is that we're four girls. We're kind of in the music world, but we are instrumentalists. This has been our whole life. We're -- none of us is Sporty, or Posh, or Ginger.
WELLS: There's not a whole lot of music videos for classical music, I have to tell you.
(LAUGHTER)
WELLS: Really, there just aren't. The music video for "Victory" -- this song itself does move you.
WESTERHOFF: We filmed it in Cuba. The people in the streets, you know, they all just came in the video. And people were dancing. And we just got them all in the video and everyone was just dancing and having a good time.
WELLS: So -- and the album is called "Born." I know that there's a little bit of a discord about whether it's classical or whether -- which chart it belongs on, but what do you consider it?
EOS: As far as what category it would go under, it's very difficult. in record shops, it's main -- it's in both the pop and the classical sections. But most in Britain actually seem to stock it in the classical sections, despite the fact that we were thrown off the classical chart there. WESTERHOFF: It's not strictly classical, but it is classically influenced. that's the thing. so we felt we had a place in the classical charts as well, but then we got kicked out by -- there's a board of about six people called the charts information network. And you know, they decided we weren't classical enough. And we didn't fit the criteria. So it was a huge fervor. We got a hell of a lot of publicity and it was really good, a blessing in disguise.
WELLS: Rachel Wells, CNN Entertainment News, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
SYDNEY: OK, quite the bombshells. And when we return, a woman who has some advice on how to cultivate that trait. You're not going to want to miss this one.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
SYDNEY: You know, us real blonde girls who went to Harvard, just have to stick together! In the new film "Legally Blonde," Reese Witherspoon plays a brainy blonde who is dumped by her boyfriend when he goes to Harvard Law School and then enrolls herself and kicks academic butt! The movie shows it's not easy being a blonde bombshell.
And a little bit later in our 2:00 p.m. "Showbiz Today Report," we're going to introduce you to someone who encourages women to nurture their inner bombshell. Sure you're not going to miss that one. Until then, in New York, I'm Laurin Sydney. Back to the brainy, yet brunette, Daryn in Atlanta.
KAGAN: I am a lot of things. Blonde you will never say, Laurin. Good to see you. Thank so much. All right. Now on to health news.
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